OUR “ LIMITED LIABILITY.”
“Is it not largely because till lately our geographical position has saved us from hostile invasion, and has enabled us to concentrate the greater there be a next time, London and Ofur other great cities will be at the mercy of our foes. In the face of these dangers we have hut one way of safety, and that is peace. Peace has long been the greatest of our interests—as indeed it is of all civilised peoples; it has become the condition of our Imperial existence. We can no l inger sit in safety behind the ‘silver streak’ and thank God we are not as other nations are. If we want peace we must strive for :we must take our share of intertrtional responsibilities.” —Viscount Cecil in the Woman’s Leader. part of our energies rather on peaceful progress than on self defence against aggression? In short, our sea defences kept us out of many wars and allowed us when we did fight to do so under a kind of limited liability. We can have no limited liability now. The Channel might hamper our enemies. It cannot now protect us from them. Air warfare is in its infancy. But it has grown far enough for us to realise that next time, if
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 281, 28 March 1929, Page 2
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